ANother case of parents ceding their right as sovereign individuals and authority as parents to The Big Gub’ment. If you, as a parent, don’t have the stones to say “NO”, or to punish your child for breaking rules (did you even set any in the first place?), then why did you even have the rug rats in the first place?

There are already laws in place to prevent children under 18 from buying tobacco. You’re supposed to be the backup and home enforcement of those laws.

I don’t smoke. But if I did, & I happened to like clove & flavored cigarettes, why should I be punished for YOUR lack of backbone? All this is going to do is to create another Prohibition Era for flavored tobacco, same as it was for alcohol. I’d even help in the circumvention, skirting and breaking of those kind of laws.